The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

Volume one of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent . First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights , is a devastating analysis of the United States government’s suppression of human rights and support of authoritarianism in Asia, Africa and Latin America during the 1960s and 70s. Still one of the most comprehensive studies of t